Obituary from the "Tribune" of Bowbells, North Dakota dated 27 Feb 1908:
Farmer Takes Poison
- - - - - - - - -
Is Dead in Half an Hour After Taking
the Poison - Tells Wife he Carried
Poison in His Pocket for a Long
Time.
Grand Forks, Feb. 20. - Anton Volse, a farmer, took poison while at the house of Ed. Vaith, seven miles east of Brocket, and died from the effects of it within 30 minutes.
Volse and his wife had been visiting at the home of Mr. Vaith, who married Mrs. Volse's daughter by a former husband, and at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he and his wife and Mrs. Vaith went to his home and did the chores and returned to Mr. Vaith's home later in the evening. On the return trip he was noticed to have a gun with him and seemed to be very despondent. Shortly after arriving at the Vaith home he came into the house and bid them all an affectionate farewell and started to go out of the house, taking the gun with him. Whereupon Mrs. Vaith and her husband followed him and found him in the rear of the barn in the act of trying to shoot himself. Not understanding the mechanism of the gun, he failed. Mrs. Vaith promptly took the gun from him.
They then returned to the house and Volse told them that they were too late for he had already taken poison and would soon be gone. His wife asked him where he had obtained the poison and he replied that he had carried it in his pocket a long time. Very soon he began to get sick and, after suffering untold agony for a few minutes, died. A doctor was called from Lakota but he arrived too late to be of any assistance.
Mr. Volse was a Bohemian, about 48 years old [sic]. He had been a hardworking man and strictly honest. He leaves a family of ten children, all except one grown to manhood and womanhood, and a wife to mourn his too sudden demise.
Farmer Takes Poison
- - - - - - - - -
Is Dead in Half an Hour After Taking
the Poison - Tells Wife he Carried
Poison in His Pocket for a Long
Time.
Grand Forks, Feb. 20. - Anton Volse, a farmer, took poison while at the house of Ed. Vaith, seven miles east of Brocket, and died from the effects of it within 30 minutes.
Volse and his wife had been visiting at the home of Mr. Vaith, who married Mrs. Volse's daughter by a former husband, and at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he and his wife and Mrs. Vaith went to his home and did the chores and returned to Mr. Vaith's home later in the evening. On the return trip he was noticed to have a gun with him and seemed to be very despondent. Shortly after arriving at the Vaith home he came into the house and bid them all an affectionate farewell and started to go out of the house, taking the gun with him. Whereupon Mrs. Vaith and her husband followed him and found him in the rear of the barn in the act of trying to shoot himself. Not understanding the mechanism of the gun, he failed. Mrs. Vaith promptly took the gun from him.
They then returned to the house and Volse told them that they were too late for he had already taken poison and would soon be gone. His wife asked him where he had obtained the poison and he replied that he had carried it in his pocket a long time. Very soon he began to get sick and, after suffering untold agony for a few minutes, died. A doctor was called from Lakota but he arrived too late to be of any assistance.
Mr. Volse was a Bohemian, about 48 years old [sic]. He had been a hardworking man and strictly honest. He leaves a family of ten children, all except one grown to manhood and womanhood, and a wife to mourn his too sudden demise.
Obituary from the "Tribune" of Bowbells, North Dakota dated 27 Feb 1908:
Farmer Takes Poison
- - - - - - - - -
Is Dead in Half an Hour After Taking
the Poison - Tells Wife he Carried
Poison in His Pocket for a Long
Time.
Grand Forks, Feb. 20. - Anton Volse, a farmer, took poison while at the house of Ed. Vaith, seven miles east of Brocket, and died from the effects of it within 30 minutes.
Volse and his wife had been visiting at the home of Mr. Vaith, who married Mrs. Volse's daughter by a former husband, and at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he and his wife and Mrs. Vaith went to his home and did the chores and returned to Mr. Vaith's home later in the evening. On the return trip he was noticed to have a gun with him and seemed to be very despondent. Shortly after arriving at the Vaith home he came into the house and bid them all an affectionate farewell and started to go out of the house, taking the gun with him. Whereupon Mrs. Vaith and her husband followed him and found him in the rear of the barn in the act of trying to shoot himself. Not understanding the mechanism of the gun, he failed. Mrs. Vaith promptly took the gun from him.
They then returned to the house and Volse told them that they were too late for he had already taken poison and would soon be gone. His wife asked him where he had obtained the poison and he replied that he had carried it in his pocket a long time. Very soon he began to get sick and, after suffering untold agony for a few minutes, died. A doctor was called from Lakota but he arrived too late to be of any assistance.
Mr. Volse was a Bohemian, about 48 years old [sic]. He had been a hardworking man and strictly honest. He leaves a family of ten children, all except one grown to manhood and womanhood, and a wife to mourn his too sudden demise.
Farmer Takes Poison
- - - - - - - - -
Is Dead in Half an Hour After Taking
the Poison - Tells Wife he Carried
Poison in His Pocket for a Long
Time.
Grand Forks, Feb. 20. - Anton Volse, a farmer, took poison while at the house of Ed. Vaith, seven miles east of Brocket, and died from the effects of it within 30 minutes.
Volse and his wife had been visiting at the home of Mr. Vaith, who married Mrs. Volse's daughter by a former husband, and at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he and his wife and Mrs. Vaith went to his home and did the chores and returned to Mr. Vaith's home later in the evening. On the return trip he was noticed to have a gun with him and seemed to be very despondent. Shortly after arriving at the Vaith home he came into the house and bid them all an affectionate farewell and started to go out of the house, taking the gun with him. Whereupon Mrs. Vaith and her husband followed him and found him in the rear of the barn in the act of trying to shoot himself. Not understanding the mechanism of the gun, he failed. Mrs. Vaith promptly took the gun from him.
They then returned to the house and Volse told them that they were too late for he had already taken poison and would soon be gone. His wife asked him where he had obtained the poison and he replied that he had carried it in his pocket a long time. Very soon he began to get sick and, after suffering untold agony for a few minutes, died. A doctor was called from Lakota but he arrived too late to be of any assistance.
Mr. Volse was a Bohemian, about 48 years old [sic]. He had been a hardworking man and strictly honest. He leaves a family of ten children, all except one grown to manhood and womanhood, and a wife to mourn his too sudden demise.
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